Murkel Dellien

 ( 1997 Births ) 

Murkel Alejandro Dellien Velasco (born 16 September 1997) is a Bolivian tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 168, achieved on 15 July 2024. He is the current No. 2 Bolivian tennis player. He also has a career-high ATP doubles ranking of No. 174 achieved on 1 April 2024. Dellien represents Bolivia at the Davis Cup, where he has a W/L record of 2–4.

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College career Dellien played college tennis at Wichita State.

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Professional career In 2021 Dellien defeated Zizou Bergs in his first Davis Cup rubber.

In July 2024, he won his maiden Challenger title at the 2024 Ion Țiriac Challenger in Brașov, Romania with a win over Dmitry Popko in the final. With his brother Hugo winning the title at the 2024 Iași Open, also in Romania, the Delliens became the first brothers to win a Challenger title in the same season since the Cerúndolos in 2022.

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Personal life He is the younger brother of fellow tennis player Hugo Dellien. Their father, Hugo Eduardo Dellien, represented Beni Department as a substitute member of the Chamber of Deputies for the Social Democratic Power alliance from 2006 to 2010.

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ATP Challenger Tour finals

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Singles: 4 (1 title, 3 runner-up)

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ATP Challenger Tour (1–3)

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Loss	0–1		Tigre, Argentina	Challenger	Clay	Juan Manuel Cerúndolo	6–4, 4–6, 2–6
Loss	0–2		Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia	Challenger	Clay	Camilo Ugo Carabelli	4–6, 2–6
Win	1–2		Brașov, Romania	Challenger	Clay	Dmitry Popko	6–3, 7–5
Loss	1–3		Izida Cup, Bulgaria	Challenger	Clay	Zdeněk Kolář	2–6, 2–6

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Doubles: 5 (3 titles, 2 runner-ups)

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ATP Challenger Tour (3–2)

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Loss	0–1		Corrientes, Argentina	Challenger	Clay	Nicolás Álvarez	Guido Andreozzi Guillermo Durán	5–7, 2–6
Loss	0–2		Prague, Czech Republic	Challenger	Clay	Adrian Andreev	Victor Vlad Cornea Andrew Paulson	3–6, 1–6
Win	1–2		Coquimbo, Chile	Challenger	Clay	Valerio Aboian	Tomás Farjat Facundo Juárez	7–6(7–4), 6–0
Win	2–2		Punta del Este, Uruguay	Challenger	Clay	Federico Agustín Gómez	Guido Andreozzi Guillermo Durán	6–3, 6–2
Win	3–2		Buenos Aires, Argentina	Challenger	Clay	Facundo Mena	Felipe Meligeni Alves Marcelo Zormann	1–6, 6–2, 12–10

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ITF Futures/World Tennis Tour finals

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Singles: 9 (6 titles, 3 runner-ups)

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ITF WTT (6–3)

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Loss	0–1		M15 Naples, USA	WTT	Clay	Pedro Boscardin Dias	3–6, 6–7(5–7)
Win	1–1		M15 Quito, Ecuador	WTT	Clay	Arklon Huertas del Pino	7–6(7–1), 6–3
Win	2–1		M15 Quito, Ecuador	WTT	Clay	Juan Bautista Otegui	6–3, 6–2
Loss	2–2		M25 Maribor, Slovenia	WTT	Clay	Hernán Casanova	4–6, 3–6
Win	3–2		M15 Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia	WTT	Clay	Conner Huertas del Pino	6–0, 6–2
Win	4–2		M15 Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia	WTT	Clay	Franco Roncadelli	7–6(7–5), 6–3
Loss	4–3		M25 Río Cuarto, Argentina	WTT	Clay	Pol Martín Tiffon	6–7(7–9), 6–3, 5–7
Win	5–3		M25 Punta del Este, Uruguay	WTT	Clay	Gonzalo Bueno	6–4, 3–6, 7–5
Win	6–3		M25 Punta del Este, Uruguay	WTT	Clay	Álvaro Guillén Meza	6–1, 6–0

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Doubles: 15 (9 titles, 6 runner-ups)

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ITF Futures/WTT (9–6)

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Hard (1–0)

Clay (8–6)

Grass (0–0)

Carpet (0–0)

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Loss	0–1		Bolivia F2, Bolivia	Futures	Clay	Hugo Dellien	Facundo Mena Sebastián Serrano	3–6, 5–7
Loss	0–2		Bolivia F3, Bolivia	Futures	Clay	Hugo Dellien	Franco Feitt José María Páez	3–6, 3–6
Win	1–2		M25 Wichita, USA	WTT	Hard	Nicolás Acevedo	John McNally Benjamin Sigouin	6–4, 2–6, 12–10
Win	2–2		M15 Ibagué, Colombia	WTT	Clay	Boris Arias	Alejandro Gómez Alejandro Hoyos	6–4, 3–6, 10–4
Win	3–2		M25 Lima, Peru	WTT	Clay	Jorge Panta	Cayetano March Pol Martín Tiffon	7–6(7–4), 7–6(7–3)
Loss	3–3		M15 Córdoba, Argentina	WTT	Clay	Boris Arias	Ignacio Carou Alejo Lorenzo Lingua Lavallén	4–6, 7–5, 4–10
Win	4–3		M25 Rosario, Argentina	WTT	Clay	Arklon Huertas del Pino	Tomás Farjat Ignacio Monzón	6–3, 6–3
Win	5–3		M25 Rosario, Argentina	WTT	Clay	Arklon Huertas del Pino	Román Andrés Burruchaga Juan Ignacio Galarza	6–3, 7–5
Loss	5–4		M15 Quito, Ecuador	WTT	Clay	Arklon Huertas del Pino	Igor Gimenez Nicolas Zanellato	2–6, 6–7(5–7)
Win	6–4		M15 Quito, Ecuador	WTT	Clay	Arklon Huertas del Pino	Alejandro Mendoza Jorge Panta	6–3, 7–5
Win	7–4		M25 Koksijde, Belgium	WTT	Clay	Hernán Casanova	Zvonimir Babić Simon Freund	6–1, 4–6, 10–5
Win	8–4		M25 San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina	WTT	Clay	Valerio Aboian	Franco Emanuel Egea Gabriel Alejandro Hidalgo	6–7(5–7), 7–5, 10–7
Loss	8–5		M25 Jablonec nad Nisou, Czech Republic	WTT	Clay	Pedro Sakamoto	Sebastian Fanselow Dominik Kellovský	2–6, 4–6
Win	9–5		M25 Córdoba, Spain	WTT	Clay	Valerio Aboian	Imanol López Morillo Benjamin Winter López	6–3, 6–7(4–7), 11–9
Loss	9–6		M25 Kassel, Germany	WTT	Clay	Stefan Latinović	Jiří Barnat Patrik Rikl	4–6, 4–6

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